We empirically assess international corporate tax avoidance by strategic location of innovative output. The analysis draws on the universe of patent applications to the European Patent Office linked with data on multinational entities (MNEs) in Europe. Four findings emerge: Firstly, patent...

The purpose of this paper is to test for tax enforcement spillovers within economic and spatial networks. Using the population of corporate tax returns for the years 2009 to 2015, we can show that tax audits exert a positive and significant effect on the tax liability of non-targeted neighboring...

The purpose of this paper is to test for spatial enforcement spillovers. Empirical testing ground is the enforcement of business taxes in South Africa. The analysis relies on the population of business tax returns for the years 2009 to 2014 and data on all business taxpayer audits by the South...